Lynda and Douglas Fury: Week 34 of our new life

Monday, Long lie in today, such a sore head, sore throat, feel like a sledgehammer has hit me. Had to go out this afternoon to collect tie backs for the Kitchen and Living Room curtains and also the new cushion for the chair in our bedroom, James and Valentina have done a lovely job and will be doing more for us in the way of cushions etc over time. Thats the problem with having so many terraces, furniture is required which means cushions etc. Douglas had his 5 o Clock club and I sorted out all of our paperwork which ended up being a 4 hour job, so now it is all sorted and filed in the filing cabinet, nothing is ever easy.

Kitchen Curtains Window 1

Kitchen Curtains Window 2

Chair Cushion

Tuesday, still feeling very rough today and Douglas is not much better, cannot summon energy to do very much. Had to pop out to chemist to get something for both of us for our flu. Managed to sort out anther couple of boxes and suitcases and then lit the fire and just relaxed, feeling very sorry for ourselves.

Cosy Fire

Wednesday, Douglas was golfing today, I am still not feeling good and my eyes are in a terrible state. Got the washing done and out to dry and managed to get some cleaning done. The other 2 bathrooms have now been thoroughly cleaned tile to tile and have now been set up as usable bathrooms at last, not that we will be using them but they are ready and another job crossed off the list. Cleaned all of the windows so now can see out of them properly, our bedroom has had the last of the hard cleaning finished as well and got all of the floors washed again, the tiles are now looking like they should, so a busy day for me and feel I achieved quite a bit in spite of not feeling very good.

Master Bedroom 1

Master Bedroom 2

Master Bedroom 3

Master Bedroom 4

Master Bathroom 1

Master Bathroom 2

Master Bathroom 3

Master Bathroom 4

Thursday, Portuguese lesson today, numbers, days of the week.months of the year and verbs, some of it is sticking in my brain, Douglas still hates it. I can order bread and rolls in the shop and also greet people and ask them how they are, I can also understand some words but cannot put sentences together yet. We done a little bit more in the house this afternoon so now the living room is finished. We have pictures and shelves to put put up on the walls and Douglas has found the perfect person to do that for us from the 5 0 clock club, Michael will come and see us next week and have a look at things we want done. Painting etc should wait I think as we have a problem with the Chimney, so no point in finishing the internal painting until we have that sorted out, as I am imagining we have not seen the last of the dust and dirt yet.

Lounge 1

Lounge 2

Lounge 3

Lounge 4

Lounge 5

Lounge 6

Friday, Met up with Jim and Jan today, it is their anniversary so we are going out for the day and then for dinner, off to Olhao and from there getting a boat out to Armano Island, boat trip very good but the island was dissappointing, 4 cafes of which only 2 were open, a lovely beach and 700 houses, well the houses were all square shaped packed like sardines and not given to privacy really, a campsite which was exactly the same, cannot think why anybody would want to holiday there, got talking to a man from Aberdeen who has been there since October and will be staying until March, I suppose when you think of the weather in Aberdeen that might explain why they are staying there. He was telling us that some of the houses go for £800,00 per week in the summer, no thanks not really our cup of tea. Had lunch at one of the cafes and then walked along the beach, ready for the boat to pick us up at 3.30, only the boat was not coming until 5.30, humm missed something, somewhere, so we ended up getting a water taxi back to Olhao. We then had a wander around Olhao up and down the little streets, it is lovely, primarily a fishing town but with some nice architecture etc. In the car and off to Faro Beach to watch the sun go down over a beer, this was lovely although it had got chillier by this time on went the fleeces and all was good. Then it was off to Antiquarius for a suckling pig dinner finally able to have Suckling Pig again, Jim and Jan enjoyed their meal and Jim paid for the meal which was not meant to happen as it was their anniversary, thank you Jim had a great day with you both, looking forward to next week when they come to stay with us.

Armano Beach

Faro from Armano Island

Armano Beach

Olhao 1

Olhao 2

Storks Nest in Ohao

Another nest on the Church

Sunset at Faro

Jim and Jan ready to go

Over the Sea we go

Island Flora

on Faro Beach waiting for Sunset

Saturday, Had to visit the pharmacist this morning to see about my eyes and face, they think it might be an allergy although to what I am not sure, got eye drops and cream so heres hoping it will clear up, still got a bad cough but sure that will go away soon enough. Then off to get some shopping and we are at Mick and Paulines for lunch at 1.30. Lunch was really good and we should have known that Micks idea of lunch is not the same as ours, we started with Scallops on Black Pork Sausage, followed by Chicken Chasseur, followed by Eton Mess and then Cheese and Biscuits, everything was really tasty and thank goodness I wont have to cook tonight, this was followed by a few beers and glasses of Red and for me my usual twenty cups of tea, I have not had any alcohol for a fortnight due to not feeling well, hope I am better soon LOL. The past couple of days have just flown by so tonight it is feet up in front of the fire, planning a walk for tomorrow, we shall see if Douglas is up for it.
Sunday, there was no walk today, Douglas woke up full of the cold so wasn't fit to do very much. The weather was lovely as well, but not to worry we will start these walks very soon. I decided to clean out the Kitchen cupboards finally and get everything sorted out in there, had to get Douglas to fit a couple of the shelves properly as the builder obviously had decided just to stuff them in without even fixing them. Really think I need to name and shame this builder, so he doesnt get any more work. Still some shelves etc to be put up as everything is sitting on the dining table at the moment, a work in progress. Douglas managed to sort out some outstanding paperwork and is now being dosed up with flu remedies.